Configuring network level security

Securing your data

Data access for end users is configured through the TARGIT Management-application and does not differ from configuring security on other connection types. Please refer to the TARGIT Management User Guide.

Filtering browsing of files and folders

An administrator can limit browsing for files or folders in the Data Sources plugins by specifying a filter in the C:\Program Files\TARGIT\TARGIT Data Service\Targit.DataService.Exe.Config file.

These can be used ONCE within the browsing-section
<allow>*</allow>Allows access to all resources
< deny >*</ deny >Denies access to all resources

These can appear multiple times as necessary
<allow>c:\resource</allow>Allows access to a resources
<deny>c:\resource</ deny >Denies access to a resources

In the example below browsing in all folders are disabled by the <deny>*</deny> and browsing C:\DSTraining ends up being allowed.

Securing communications

The TARGIT Data Service comes with a built in IP filtering functionality that can limit the request to the service. This can be configured by editing the file C:\Program Files\TARGIT\TARGIT Data Service\Targit.DataService.Exe.Config (make a backup before editing!)

By default the functionality is disabled but can be enabled by simply un-commented the entries in the configuration file.

Please note this is a Billable Service if you need help configuring this.

By default the filter is set to the name “Default” and the corresponding filter with the same name, however the FilterName can be changed to meet your filtering needs. To only allow connections for both administrative and queries for the server the TARGIT Data Service is installed with the following settings and must be changed:

1. Remove comments from the <!-- <HttpModule FilterName="Default" /> --> line (the <!-- and the -->)
2. Change <HttpModule FilterName="Default" /> to <HttpModule FilterName="LoopbackOnly" />
3. Remove comments for the loopback section, leaving it like this: